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was_tansu_now_badhedgehog ([personal profile] was_tansu_now_badhedgehog) wrote2008-06-25 11:48 am
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I have been watching, for a laugh, some episodes of Old Top Gear, from back in the early 1990s. And oh my, what a laugh.

Things that have struck me, some funny, others, that overused word "poignant":
1. The journalistic values! The reports on "issues" are like old Watchdog. Here's something to be REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT and we met the relevant authority spokesperson in a back alley behind a jobcentre (no, really).
2. The journalistic values! The reviews include a whole bunch of stuff which seems to be read out straight from the manufacturers marketing material.
3. The clothes. 1980s man jumpers. Tony Mason's funny little hat. Jeremy Clarkson in a long duster style coat.
4. quite lengthy rally coverage - I had forgotten that this used to be on Top Gear, I remember watching it on the BBC but not that it was part of the actual Top Gear programme.
4a. Young promising rally drivers who since became world champion and then died tragically young. I nearly wept to see a 20 year old Richard Burns (1971-2005). Death stalks us everyfuckingwhere.
5. Occasional and sometimes inappropriate Day Today style excessively fancy cuts.

[identity profile] washte.livejournal.com 2008-06-25 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I miss Top Gear and great shows like this.

Old episodes must be really hilarious to see Clarkson in a duster and I'll bet his haircut was even greater!

Enjoy!

[identity profile] snowy-owlet.livejournal.com 2008-06-25 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I so adore Top Gear. Sadly, the DVDs of the really old episodes are not available from Netflix.

[identity profile] tansu.livejournal.com 2008-06-25 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Old Top Gear is a rather different beast to New Top Gear.

[identity profile] snowy-owlet.livejournal.com 2008-06-25 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
It sounds like it, from your description. Do you prefer one or the other?